Window and door screen.



S. DOWNS. WINDOW AND DOOR SCREEN. APPLICATION FILED AUG. 26, 1913.

1,098,618. Patented June 2,1914.

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TTED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SAMUEL DOWNS, 0F .PITMAN, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOB OF ONE-HALF TO VERNON D.

CLARK, 0F PITT/IAN, NEW JERSEY.

WINDOW AND DOOR SCREEN.

To (ZZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL Downs, a citizen of the United States, residing at Pitman, in the county of Gloucester and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Window and Door Screens, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in window and door screens, the object of the invention being to provide an improved construction of screen which will prevent flies and other insects from entering the room, but permit such flies and insects within the room to readily escape.

A further object is to provide improved means for securing the wire netting within a screen frame so that an outlet is provided at the top for flies and insects from within the room.

With these and other objects in view, the invention consists in certain novel features of construction and combinations and arrangements of parts as will be more fully hereinafter described and pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings: Figure 1 is a perspective view illustrating my improvements. Fig. 2 is a View in vertical section through the center of the screen, and Fig. 3 is a fragmentary sectional view illustrating an ordinary type of adjustable side strip.

1 represents a rectangular frame which is illustrated as constituting a window screen frame, but may, of course, constitute a door screen frame if desired. This screen frame has adjustable strips 2 at its edges pressed outwardly by springs 23 so that the screen will fit various sizes of windows, and I would have it understood that my improvements are adapted for use with various other styles of adjusting means, and I am not limited in this particular.

At the upper end of the frame 1, and ex tending a short distance downwardly from said frame, a strip 3 of wire mesh is secured, and over this strip. at the side edges of the frame, wedge shaped blocks 1- are secured.

A wire screen 5 of slightly greater dimension than the dimension of the opening within the screen frame is secured over the outer face of frame 1, and to the outer surfaces of the wedge blocks a by means of a rectangular Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed August 26, 1913.

Patented June 2, 1914.

Serial no. 786,659.

covering frame 6. This covering frame is made up of four strips of material preferably Wood, although metal may be used if desired, and the side members or vertical members of said frame are bent as shown at 7 near their upper ends, so that they may lie against the screen 5 over the wedge blocks a and be secured thereto.

I may employ ordinary tacks or nails 8 for securing the covering frame 6, and it is of course to he understood that similar nails or tacks will be utilized for securing the strip 3 and the wedge blocks 4. 7

It will be observed, particularly with reference to Fig. 2, that the lower edge of strip 3 terminates above the bend in screen 5 and frame (3, so that an outlet extending across the width of the screen is provided for the flies and other insects walking up the inner surface of the screen. It is a well known fact that flies walk up a screen rather than down, and hence any fly which lights 011 the inner surface of the screen and walks up the same, will find himself on the outside of the house.

The covering frame 6 not only serves to bind the edges of the screen 5 to the screen frame, but the upper horizontal member of thiscovering frame overlaps the free edge of screen 5 and serves as a protection therefor.

Various slight changes might be made in the general form and arrangement of parts described without departing from my invention, and hence I do not limit myself to the precise details set forth, but consider myself at liberty to make such changes and alterations as fairly fall within the spirit and scope of the appended claim.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

The combination with a frame, of a wire mesh strip secured to the outside of the frame and extending from the upper portion of the frame downwardly, of a wire screen secured to the outer face of the frame and extending upwardly from the lower edge of the frame, wedge-shaped blocks interposed between the strip and the screen and secured to both the strip and the screen as well as to the frame, said blocks adapted to position the upper portion of the screen away from the strip and the frame, and of such a length that they provide an opening g i,098,6i8

between the lower edge of the strip and the screen,C1 and a fiectangular covelring frame secure tirou out the vertica and horizontal edges f the screen secured to the SAMUEL DOWNS 5 first-mentioned frame and to the wedge Witnesses:

blocks, substantially as described. AMos L. OHATTIN,

In testimony whereof I have signed my WVILMER R. MADARA.

name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the "Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. C. 

